The Pen/ O. Henry Prize stories. 2009 / chosen and with an introduction by Laura Furman ; with essays on the stories they admire most by jurors A. S. Byatt, Anthony Doerr, Tim O'Brien.
"The O. Henry Prize stories [was] ... retitled The Pen/ O. Henry Prize stories in 2009." -- p. vi.
Contents:
An ordinary soldier of the queen / Graham Joyce -- The nursery / Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum -- Purple bamboo park / E. V. Slate -- The bell ringer / John Burnside -- Uncle Musto takes a mistress / Mohan Sikka -- Kind / L. E. Miller -- Icebergs / Alistair Morgan -- The camera and the cobra / Roger Nash -- Tell him about Brother John / Manuel Muñoz -- This is not your city / Caitlin Horrocks -- The house behind a weeping cherry / Ha Jin -- Twenty-two stories / Paul Theroux -- The order of things / Judy Troy -- A beneficiary / Nadine Gordimer -- Substitutes / Viet Dinh -- Isabel's daughter / Karen Brown -- The visitor / Marisa Silver -- And we will be here / Paul Yoon -- Darkness / Andrew Sean Greer -- Wildwood / Junot Díaz -- Reading The PEN/ O. Henry Prize stories 2009 : the jurors on their favorites -- Writing The PEN/ 0. Henry Prize stories 2009 : the writers on their work.
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